On 4/8/2012 10:00 PM, cordat...@aol.com wrote:
FreeDOS User ...
If WATTCP is working correctly you don't need the other lines in your
config file beyond "my_ip=dhcp" as they are filled in if DHCP works.
As has been discussed here before some versions of WATTCP support DHCP
and some don't. My guess is that yours does support DHCP since if you
didn't have an IP you could not get to the roadrunner search.
You mention MTCP.CFG -this is the config file for MTCP, not WATTCP.
The two packages are very similar but they have different
configuration files. WATTCP and MTCP differ in that WATTCP will
provide DHCP services within each application (like Arachne) while
MTCP has a stand-alone DHCP program which then updates a config file
and all other MTCP apps (like Ping or FTP) assume that the IP is
static. One way to remove some uncertainty from your WATTCP
configuration is to adopt the MTCP DHCP method.
In order to do this you would have a very basic MTCP config file (I
think the minimum is the interrupt vector - would be nice if this were
not needed :-) and then run the MTCP DHCP program. Everything from
your DHCP server (ie your router) will get dumped into the MTCP config
file as well as show on your screen. You can then update your WATTCP
config file to match. This can be automated in one of a couple of
ways I can share with you if you are interested.
Correct - each WATTCP based application gets a DHCP address each time it
starts. This approach handles short leases better, but it leads to
bigger executables. mTCP basically cheats and keeps the executables
smaller by making DHCP a separate step in a separate program.
Cordata - you could give him the utility you wrote that parses the mTCP
config file and fixes up the WATTCP file. (I'd like to see that bundled
with mTCP one day.)
Another option is a utility by Dave Dunfield at
http://www.dunfield.com/doswid/index.htm called DHCP. It is a DHCP
client that can configure both mTCP and WATTCP, and it is smaller than
my own DHCP client for mTCP.
Mike
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